The Northern Renaissance

Question 0

Johannes Gutenberg

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Used movable type to print books and copies of the Bible

• books printed quickly and economically
• more people can read the Bible -questioning
• spread ideas

Question 1

The Northern Renaissance

Answer 1

• spreads North through trade
• wealth supported Renaissance ideas
• Northern Renaissance thinkers merged humanist ideas with Christianity

Question 2

Writers

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Erasmus- most influential humanist of N. Europe (The Praise of Folly)

Question 3

Thomas More

Answer 3

• Utopia (1516)

* an “ideal place or society where all people are equal and gov’t is not corrupt

Question 4

William Shakespeare

Answer 4

Hamlet, Romeo & Juliet, MacBeth

Question 5

Art

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• oil on canvas
• great attention to detail, facial expressions
• realistic human figures and subject matter, secular subjects